The Beatles: Something New

Released on July 20, 1964, and spending nine weeks at the No. 2 spot on the album charts (second only to the Beatles' soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night), Something New included several tracks that were left off of the U.S. edition of the soundtrack. Among the 11 songs—"I'll Cry Instead," "Things We Said Today," "Any Time At All," "When I Get Home," "Slow Down," "Matchbox," "Tell Me Why," "And I Love Her," "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You," "If I Fell," and "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand"—were tracks from the British Long Tall Sally EP and the German version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand." This audio CD is part of a series of limited edition "mini LP replicas" by Capitol, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Unlike most of the remixed and remastered Beatles music available today, it is a faithful duplication of the original U.S. album—the same songs in the same order, as well as the "Americanized" sound mix—in both mono and stereo versions, for a total of 22 tracks. The CD is even packaged in a scaled-down copy of the original album cover, complete with the paper liner sleeve.